Call for Entry - Fiber Iterations
Fiber Iterations - Textile Art Gallery NYC’s annual Juried Show invites all artists working in fiber and textile-based practices to submit work celebrating the versatility, innovation, and expressive potential of these mediums. The Juried Show is open to artists exploring traditional and contemporary approaches, including but not limited to weaving, embroidery, quilting, felting, tapestry, soft sculpture, mixed media, and experimental textile processes.
The gallery is particularly interested in work that pushes the boundaries of fiber art, engages with cultural narratives, or examines materiality, sustainability, identity, and storytelling through textile forms. Both emerging and established artists are encouraged to apply.
Selected works will be featured in a curated exhibition aimed at highlighting the depth and diversity of fiber and textile art today. Artists will have the opportunity to share their work with a broader audience in the Chelsea Arts District and participate in programming related to the exhibition.
Juror
Dutch native Petra Fallaux is a writer, curator, and artist, based in Pittsburgh, PA.
Petra Fallaux has juried many art quilt exhibitions, such as The Schweinfurth’s international art quilt exhibitions QAQ 2025 and QAQ 2019, Artist as Quiltmaker 2024, Quilt Visions 2022, and Quilt National 2017. In 2020, Petra was the first juror of On the Edge, an online initiative by Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA.com) to create a series of virtual galleries. In addition, Petra has been a juror for statewide art exhibitions such as the Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition and the Michigan Regional Art Exhibition.
Locally, she has juried exhibitions for the Pittsburgh Society for Artists, Pittsburgh’s Group A, the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts’ New Collective. She directed Carnegie Mellon University’s art galleries for over a decade and curated more than a hundred exhibitions in a variety of media, ranging from textiles, paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, video, architecture, and design, to multi-media and site-specific installations.
Petra frequently contributes essays, reviews, and articles to artist catalogues and magazines. Most recently she authored three catalogue essays for Schulz + Kirpich, an exhibition of work by Karen Schulz and Judy Kirpich at the International Quilt Museum. She wrote introductory essays for the first three solo exhibitions at Pamela Loewen Gallery, an in-depth analysis of the work in Circular Abstractions: Bull’s Eyes Quilts, and the introduction to artist Donita Simpson’s book: Detroit Framed: The Color Photographs by Donita Simpson. Her exhibition reviews and topical magazine articles can be found in Art Quilt Quarterly, Surface Design Journal, Fiber Art Now, and Fiberarts.
As an artist, Petra’s focus is on surface design and printmaking on cloth. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Since 2003, while working as an independent writer, curator, and artist, Petra has helped direct Springboard Design, an award-winning architecture, planning, and design firm whose work includes museum, exhibition, and public interest design. She co-curates the Springboard Gallery, which is located on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Garfield neighborhood.
Petra Fallaux earned a Master of Arts Management (MAM) degree from Carnegie Mellon University and degrees in psychology (BS) and film studies (MS) from the Universities of Leiden and Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
